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title: A cat that trots in with its tail straight up like a flagpole is say… — Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine live… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cat that trots in with its tail straight up like a flagpole is saying a happy hello; the same cat swishing its tail hard from side to side is saying «enough, I'm cross». Who acts: cat, same cat. A sentence of the lesson «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet» 
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# Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 1

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A cat that trots in with its tail straight up like a flagpole is saying a happy hello; the same cat swishing its tail hard from side to side is saying «enough, I'm cross».

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**Who acts:** cat, same cat · **What happens:** trot, say, swish, be · **To what, where:** happy hello, tail, side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, same cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet.lesson:1
# text = A cat that trots in with its tail straight up like a flagpole is saying a happy hello; the same cat swishing its tail hard from side to side is saying «enough, I'm cross».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	trots	trot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	flagpole	flagpole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hello	hello	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
23	swishing	swish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
33	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
34	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	ccomp	_	_
39	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trot** | present | a cat |  |  |  |  | with room's tail; like a flagpole | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | a cat | a happy hello |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic |
| 3 | **swish** | gerund | the same cat *not said here* | room's tail |  | side |  | to side; hard *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | the same cat |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the same cat *= cat* |  |  |  |  | cross *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet.lesson:1`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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